Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.